Violence Against Free Media and Knowledge Dissemination in Ethiopia: An Analysis of the Mechanisms of Restrictions on Information Flow.
This article examines multiple mechanisms the Ethiopian state has been using to implement information blackout throughout the country in order to distort, misrepresent, hide and deny massive human rights infractions perpetrated by the military against citizens demanding self-government, basic rights...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Pan African Studies Vol. 9; no. 10; pp. 395 - 411 |
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Journal of Pan African Studies
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